slacka

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by slacka 2mo ago
Do you mean the glowglobe rather than an umbrella? The glowglobes were used for lighting.
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by slacka 6mo ago
It was removed. Here is the archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313125244/https://old.reddi...
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by slacka 6mo ago
Sounds like a massive waste of your time for NextDNS admins and a poor UX for end users. If your security relies on trusting old domains, then you need to rethink your security. Also, I bet it's just as easy for you to accidentally whi
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by slacka 9mo ago
You're missing the point. The effective tax rate of many billionaires is lower than ours. "Musk with a fortune of $244 billion, paid an average effective tax rate of 24% from 2018 to 2020". In other years it was as low as 3%[
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by slacka 1y ago
I too found that interesting that Apple's Neural Engine doesn't work with local LLMs. Seems like Apple, AMD, and Intel are missing the AI boat by not properly supporting their NPUs in llama.cpp. Any thoughts on why this is?
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Apple releases FastVLM and MobileCLIP2 on HF, real-time video captioning(huggingface.co)
6 points by slacka 1y ago|2 comments
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by slacka 1y ago
FastVLM: https://huggingface.co/collections/apple/fastvlm-68ac97b9cd5... MobileCLIP2: https://huggingface.co/collections/apple/mobileclip2-68ac947...
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by slacka 1y ago
Very interesting model. Some key points from the blog: * NVIDIA is also releasing most of the data they used to create it, including the pretraining corpus * The model uses a hybrid architecture consisting primarily of Mamba-2 and MLP layer
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Version 2 of Higgs Audio Generation(boson.ai)
3 points by slacka 1y ago|1 comments
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by slacka 1y ago
Higgs Audio V2 is an advanced, open-source audio generation model developed by Boson AI, designed to produce highly expressive and lifelike speech with robust multi-speaker dialogue capabilities. Some Highlights: * Trained on 10M hours of d
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by slacka 2y ago
How is this the trolley problem for someone with a terminal disease? I assume the sick population are the people in the trolley and the experimental patient is the person on the track? In this scenario, by not pulling the lever you just ext
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by slacka 2y ago
Why don't recommend atop ? When a system is unresponsive, I want a I want a high-level tool that immediately shows which subsystem is under heavy load. It should show CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network usage. The other tools you listed ar
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by slacka 3y ago
All of the features descried in the article are supported by clang except maybe for the constexpr keyword. By your own list, neither one supports all the features. Also, gcc only supports about 4 or 5 features more than gcc, and clang suppo
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by slacka 3y ago
For the Internet as a whole, yes, but not for this narrow case of legitimate news organizations. If Facebook could have building full of moderators to review flagged content on their site, Google could easily fix this issue with a team to h
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by slacka 3y ago
So you prefer, the DSL or GPL over GPLv2? The Doom Source License (or DSL) is the original source code license under which the Doom source code was released in late 1997.[1] I'll take this over the years and years the past licensing ha
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by slacka 3y ago
This vulnerability is about injecting keystrokes into connected wireless keyboards and mice.[1] With the phone industry adoption of USB-C, they've made wired easier than ever before. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub&#x2
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by slacka 3y ago
Did you even read the post before you commented? From the post: > I believe this only triggers on software decoding, which is why it particularly affects us (and not, say, macOS which has hardware decoding). It's completely sensib
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by slacka 3y ago
Would be interesting to see a a Debian derivative that combines this with the Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils.[1] Could be a big win for memory safety and performance. [1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
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by slacka 3y ago
Cat fluff piece. Owl’s are far more “evolved” to their predatory niche. In addition, every land animal of prey are on are on the menu for wolves. Cat’s lack of social evolution greatly limits their choice. So much for perfection. Wolves hav
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by slacka 3y ago
The author said he is just starting on the book, so he's not claiming it's perfect. And the beauty of github, open source is you can fix them with a pull request. For example, the svg is here: https://github.com/a
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by slacka 3y ago
Counter point, I've been using a VoIP service called GrandCentral since college. Google purchased them. Nearly 20 years later, I'm still using that same number with far more feature. In this case, Squarespace acquired Google Domai
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by slacka 3y ago
Network level ad-blocking like Privoxy and pi-hole have so many downsides like they can't handle inline adverts. My pi4 pi-hole is unplugged right now because it just didn't work well. After hours wasted trying to make it work wit
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by slacka 3y ago
I’m diagnosed as having pollution induced Asthma and allergies to wood smoke. While I need steroids or an N95 mask when the air quality is very poor, Benadryl indeed does help with the symptoms. What value does your comment add by nick pick
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by slacka 3y ago
One argument I made was sponsoring a project, especially buys you support / developer relations. For example, we replaced a commercial PKZIP license with 7-zip. Was able to use the fact that one of the project we donated to, 7-zip, imp
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by slacka 3y ago
Absolutely. For the first startup that I worked for, I earned a position with budgeting authority. Once we achieved profitably, I added donations to the open source tools we relied upon. I received some pushback and defended it. Looking bac
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by slacka 3y ago
You can watch it outside of the UK here: https://vimeo.com/838023699
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by slacka 3y ago
Did you find sources and make the edit? Or just assume it would be rejected? In my experience, the vast majority of my edits were accepted when properly sourced, especially on esoteric topics like this. Yes, there are exceptions and bad app
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by slacka 3y ago
I experienced this back when I configured my home Linux boxes as a router, VPN server, firewall, media server, etc. Since I had the time, compiled all of the info I found on random blogs and sites and added them to the Ubuntu Community wiki
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by slacka 3y ago
Yes, or put a bit more elegantly, 'The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.' — Carl Sagan
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by slacka 3y ago
No mention of the models or tech used in the article. I did some digging and found this. Seems to be made with QuickWick on Hugging Face[1] with the community on Discord[2]. Amazing how fast AI is moving these days. Hard to tell if we'

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